Pubs and football

Degsy · 13-03-2007 12:48PM

irishbird wrote:

I know loads of pubs what dont show football on sundays. i know the cut of you, you only go to pubs what show football so you can have a victor meldrw whine and then carry it on for the next week until you find something to whine about ..............we get the fact you dont like football we have got over it, maybe you should do the same

I want to know why none of the pubs will show the grand prix???

Grand prix?Crap as it is at least there's a chance a couple of cars will crash and explode.In football there's no chance these days of a good pitch invasion or a riot,they've gotten rid of all that in the search for more money.

John Mason · 13-03-2007 12:51PM

manonthemoon wrote:

'Cause its SH1T

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sigh, it is far too complicated for you to understand

Agamemnon · 13-03-2007 12:56PM

manonthemoon wrote:

'Cause its SH1T

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QFT. Just imagine the whine of the engines blaring over speakers in a pub while the commentators cream themselves in a hopeless effort to make it seem more exciting. I'd rather watch a documentary about snails humping than F1.

humbert · 13-03-2007 12:58PM

agamemnon wrote:

QFT. Just imagine the whine of the engines blaring over speakers in a pub while the commentators cream themselves in a hopeless effort to make it seem more exciting. I'd rather watch a documentary about snails humping than F1.

Couldn't agree more. Dullest "sport" in the fucking world.

Mossy Monk · 13-03-2007 01:11PM

no

dullest sport is bowls

Agamemnon · 13-03-2007 01:16PM

Degsy, this should solve your problems: a remote-control wristwatch. I have one of these babies and I love turning off a tv when the pub is full of braying Liverpool fans.

No-one ever suspects that it was a watch that did it either. While the bar staff are in a panic looking for the remote and the 'Pool fans are in a near-riot, I'm down the back of the pub laughing to myself. Wait for a particularly tense moment like a penalty for maximum effect.

copacetic · 13-03-2007 01:17PM

Slow coach wrote:

This doesn't quite tally with asking for a channel change, does it?

You have pasted replies to two different people, so no they don't tally. Presumably the OP would complain just as much at you wanting to watch the sports you are interested in so you need to go to different pubs. I wouldn't advise you to go to a pub with no TV and ask to turn on the running would I?

Slow coach wrote:

Now this is a bit more subtle than the other guy, but essentially saying the same thing (if you don't like soccer, you're a fairy):

Funny, isn't it soccer where the players try to ride each other after scoring? And they had to stop them taking their shirts off, "Hey look, my chest is hairier than yours"

Oh the irony! you complaining that soccer fans think you are a fairy while yourself and the OP make all thse little comments about how ghey soccer is!

shane86 · 13-03-2007 01:35PM

agamemnon wrote:

Degsy, this should solve your problems: a remote-control wristwatch. I have one of these babies and I love turning off a tv when the pub is full of braying Liverpool fans.

No-one ever suspects that it was a watch that did it either. While the bar staff are in a panic looking for the remote and the 'Pool fans are in a near-riot, I'm down the back of the pub laughing to myself. Wait for a particularly tense moment like a penalty for maximum effect.

You know, I used to sometimes rob my cousins remote, go outside and fire the changer button when she was watching Home and Away, to annoy her and because I hated H&W.

I was 7 back then. A grown man getting off on similiar just brings it to new levels of twattery. As said, the rugger barely interests me. It didnt mean when it was on in the pub I was in Saturday afternoon I prevented others watching. Honestly, the personal abuse ban on boards needs to be lifted so people like this can be told what they are. Personally I hope someone down the pub sees your little game and takes your nose and eyes off with the top of a pint glass.

copacetic · 13-03-2007 01:40PM

shane86 wrote:

You know, I used to sometimes rob my cousins remote, go outside and fire the changer button when she was watching Home and Away, to annoy her and because I hated H&W.

I was 7 back then. A grown man getting off on similiar just brings it to new levels of twattery. As said, the rugger barely interests me. It didnt mean when it was on in the pub I was in Saturday afternoon I prevented others watching. Honestly, the personal abuse ban on boards needs to be lifted so people like this can be told what they are. Personally I hope someone down the pub sees your little game and takes your nose and eyes off with the top of a pint glass.

ah leave him alone, he is prob down the back having a great old laugh to himself. he is crazy cool dude :rolleyes:

Agamemnon · 13-03-2007 01:41PM

shane86 wrote:

You know, I used to sometimes rob my cousins remote, go outside and fire the changer button when she was watching Home and Away, to annoy her and because I hated H&W.

I was 7 back then. A grown man getting off on similiar just brings it to new levels of twattery. As said, the rugger barely interests me. It didnt mean when it was on in the pub I was in Saturday afternoon I prevented others watching. Honestly, the personal abuse ban on boards needs to be lifted so people like this can be told what they are. Personally I hope someone down the pub sees your little game and takes your nose and eyes off with the top of a pint glass.

So you're a Liverpool fan then?

shane86 · 13-03-2007 01:50PM

agamemnon wrote:

So you're a Liverpool fan then?

Actually Im not. Im not a fan of any premiership club so to speak. The only team I actually care about winning is Ireland. However, I like to see Liverpool, Celtic, Chelsea to an extent, do very well, and any team facing Man U to win. Im just not a devoted fan. Ill cheer them on but wont be gutted if they lose

However, your attitude/behaviour is a disgrace, and if I saw you switch during an important Ireland penalty Id leave a space between your teeth wider than the goalmouth.

Degsy · 13-03-2007 02:03PM

shane86 wrote:

Actually Im not. Im not a fan of any premiership club so to speak. The only team I actually care about winning is Ireland. However, I like to see Liverpool, Celtic, Chelsea to an extent, do very well, and any team facing Man U to win. Im just not a devoted fan. Ill cheer them on but wont be gutted if they lose

However, your attitude/behaviour is a disgrace, and if I saw you switch during an important Ireland penalty Id leave a space between your teeth wider than the goalmouth.

Thats what i feel like doing to people sporting football tops and bawling like imbeciles at the telly

John Mason · 13-03-2007 02:03PM

shane86 wrote:

Actually Im not. Im not a fan of any premiership club so to speak. The only team I actually care about winning is Ireland. However, I like to see Liverpool, Celtic, Chelsea to an extent, do very well, and any team facing Man U to win. Im just not a devoted fan. Ill cheer them on but wont be gutted if they lose

However, your attitude/behaviour is a disgrace, and if I saw you switch during an important Ireland penalty Id leave a space between your teeth wider than the goalmouth.

Actually, i think your attitude is a disgrace, most of us here have long grown out of school yard bullying behaviour, so what if you missed a penalty, does this mean your life is over, that suddenly your legs are going to fall off ..........grow up

shane86 · 13-03-2007 02:11PM

Ah gerrofit

While baroom brawls arent my forte its no less than the guy would deserve. If you dont like it, dont watch it. I suppose agamemmnon would like it if his locals doors were blocked every day by people with placards demanding alcohol be banned?

And actually Irishbird, if because of this guy you missed, say, David O`Learys shot in Italia 90, you would be missing out on one of the greatest national sports moments of your generation.

So yeah, in conclusion, he deserves what comes to him from some drunken reds fans

humbert · 13-03-2007 02:17PM

shane86 wrote:

Ah gerrofit While baroom brawls arent my forte its no less than the guy would deserve. If you dont like it, dont watch it. I suppose agamemmnon would like it if his locals doors were blocked every day by people with placards demanding alcohol be banned?

And actually Irishbird, if because of this guy you missed, say, David O`Learys shot in Italia 90, you would be missing out on one of the greatest national sports moments of your generation.

So yeah, in conclusion, he deserves what comes to him from some drunken reds fans

strongest argument for degsy's point of view so far I'd say.

John Mason · 13-03-2007 02:20PM

And actually Irishbird, if because of this guy you missed, say, David O`Learys shot in Italia 90, you would be missing out on one of the greatest national sports moments of your generation.

have you heard of replays, dvd, downloads, it is hardly as if i would never get to see ever........and who is David O'leary anyway?

Degsy · 13-03-2007 02:30PM

shane86 wrote:

Ah gerrofit While baroom brawls arent my forte its no less than the guy would deserve. If you dont like it, dont watch it. I suppose agamemmnon would like it if his locals doors were blocked every day by people with placards demanding alcohol be banned?

And actually Irishbird, if because of this guy you missed, say, David O`Learys shot in Italia 90, you would be missing out on one of the greatest national sports moments of your generation.

So yeah, in conclusion, he deserves what comes to him from some drunken reds fans

Well if you dont want to be subject to any distractions,watch yer football at home.A public house is there for members of the public to go and have a drink not to be monoplised by fans of a sport who cant be bothered to go and see it live.

copacetic · 13-03-2007 02:45PM

Degsy wrote:

Well if you dont want to be subject to any distractions,watch yer football at home.A public house is there for members of the public to go and have a drink not to be monoplised by fans of a sport who cant be bothered to go and see it live.

some tosser thinking he is cool by turning off the TV is a little more that a distraction even you would have to admit?

Who are you to decide what a public house is for?

event · 13-03-2007 02:52PM

Degsy wrote:

Unlike the pansies who have nothing better to do with thier time than look at other men hugging and kissing each other while sporting mullet hairstyles?Do you think thats tough,pal?

Degsy wrote:

Thats what i feel like doing to people sporting football tops and bawling like imbeciles at the telly

Degsy wrote:

Well if you dont want to be subject to any distractions,watch yer football at home.A public house is there for members of the public to go and have a drink not to be monoplised by fans of a sport who cant be bothered to go and see it live.

so which is it:

Did someone in a football jersey try it on with you, and you being the massive homophobic, paniced and now fear them all.

or

When you were 7, you were never picked for the football team, as you were crap, and now you hate all soccer fans.

or

are you just a general whinger?

Degsy · 13-03-2007 02:58PM

daveym wrote:

some tosser thinking he is cool by turning off the TV is a little more that a distraction even you would have to admit?

Who are you to decide what a public house is for?

Only if you're watching the telly.If you want to watch the telly stay at home.Thats like me bringing a stereo into a pub and inflicting my music on everybody in the place,what you're saying is that if i happen to have a few friends with me its okay to do so.Next sunday i shall be playing Rammstein down my local to drown out the telly,all fans are welcome to come along,wear your band T-shirts.

Degsy · 13-03-2007 03:01PM

event wrote:

Did someone in a football jersey try it on with you

Are they know for outwardly homosexual behaviour then?That explains a lot....

copacetic · 13-03-2007 03:07PM

Degsy wrote:

Only if you're watching the telly.If you want to watch the telly stay at home.Thats like me bringing a stereo into a pub and inflicting my music on everybody in the place,what you're saying is that if i happen to have a few friends with me its okay to do so.Next sunday i shall be playing Rammstein down my local to drown out the telly,all fans are welcome to come along,wear your band T-shirts.

it's not quite the same is it? The comparison would be if you went in to a pub and there was a band in the corner that people were watching. Would you start complaining then the public house wasn't for the likes of them?

It does seem that by your thinking the pub is only for people who think and act like you and anyone who doesn't think and act like you is ghey. Is that about the size of it?

event · 13-03-2007 03:08PM

Degsy wrote:

Only if you're watching the telly.If you want to watch the telly stay at home.Thats like me bringing a stereo into a pub and inflicting my music on everybody in the place,what you're saying is that if i happen to have a few friends with me its okay to do so.Next sunday i shall be playing Rammstein down my local to drown out the telly,all fans are welcome to come along,wear your band T-shirts.

do you complain if someone plays a song you dont like on the jukebox too?

event · 13-03-2007 03:09PM

Degsy wrote:

Are they know for outwardly homosexual behaviour then?That explains a lot....

i imagine that there are a few gay football fans in the whole world?

is that such a shock to you?

do you think that gay men only wear dresses or something?

Zebra3 · 13-03-2007 03:09PM

Chucky the tree wrote:

Will you EL heads ever get rid of the chip on your shoulders?

Looking forward to relegation again this season?

No chip on my shoulder, just explaining what happens when I'm in a pub and there's English football on the box.

I'm not saying you don't no much about football, but we can't get relegated again this season, so please try and come up with a smart remark that makes sense.

5starpool wrote:

*yawn*

You're familiar with the muppets I'm talking about then?

The_B_Man wrote:

football is football. do ya whinge at the ppl that only follow italian league or spanish league? i hope all eircom league fans arent like this. hope its just boardsies. i assumed the true fan was the one who actually liked football?

All, I'm doing is explaining the usual story. I'm happy to stand there and talk about ball, yet for some reason it's the Person Who Watches Football In The Pub that doesn't.

DaveMcG wrote:

Didn't realise one had to follow the EL in order to be a football fan... Hooray for being different!

Well, you don't actually. But for some reason a lot of fans of foreign leagues seem unconfortable talking to EL fans. I think they have an inferiority complex.

Mossy Monk wrote:

look at you and your superiority
yawn :rolleyes:

As above, it's not my superiority, but their inferiority.

copacetic · 13-03-2007 03:25PM

Zebra3 wrote:

it's not my superiority, but their inferiority.

I must say I do feel inferior when faced with that kind of blinding use of reason.

thelordofcheese · 13-03-2007 03:27PM

Zebra3 wrote:

Well, you don't actually. But for some reason a lot of fans of foreign leagues seem unconfortable talking to EL fans. I think they have an inferiority complex.

maybe it's just you?
Prehaps your social skills are a bit lacking?

In your little role-play of the unyeilding tragedy that is your pub experience you did come off as a little bit of an awkward sort, too wrapped up in the notion that 'real' football fans are the ones that attend matches, and the guys in the pub are nothing more than charlatans.

Just a thought....

Zebra3 · 13-03-2007 03:38PM

daveym wrote:

I must say I do feel inferior when faced with that kind of blinding use of reason.

thelordofcheese wrote:

maybe it's just you?
Prehaps your social skills are a bit lacking?

In your little role-play of the unyeilding tragedy that is your pub experience you did come off as a little bit of an awkward sort, too wrapped up in the notion that 'real' football fans are the ones that attend matches, and the guys in the pub are nothing more than charlatans.

Just a thought....

I'm never the one that feels uncomfortable talking about football in the pub (or anywhere). They genuinely have no idea what to say to me and they seem to be in a state of shock.

The funny thing about the superior/inferior feeling is that the fan of the winning team usually has his chest puffed out while sneering at the fans of the losing team in the pub and then they get talking to a bloke at the bar that follows little aul' Shels (or insert other EL team) and they're stuck for words til they run back to the Premiership brigade corner.

It doesn't make me feel superior in anyway, it just makes me laugh.

Agamemnon · 13-03-2007 03:42PM

shane86 wrote:

Ah gerrofit While baroom brawls arent my forte its no less than the guy would deserve. If you dont like it, dont watch it. I suppose agamemmnon would like it if his locals doors were blocked every day by people with placards demanding alcohol be banned?

And actually Irishbird, if because of this guy you missed, say, David O`Learys shot in Italia 90, you would be missing out on one of the greatest national sports moments of your generation.

So yeah, in conclusion, he deserves what comes to him from some drunken reds fans

By definition, a Liverpool match can't be a "great national sport moment", so your example is irrelevant and meaningless.

Your posts are the best proof yet of Degsy's point. So if you're denied a few seconds of a Liverpool match, you'll go apeshit? That's like an alcoholic smashing up the pub because they won't serve him any more drink.

tba · 13-03-2007 03:59PM

Ah sure TV is crap anyway, why would you watch it?

Pubs and football

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